IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2019 Job Profile and other Important Details

For every banking job aspirant, the official notifications for IBPS RRB Office Assistant have brought another good job opportunity. In qualifying IBPS RRB Exam, it is important to score cut-off marks, as it plays the most crucial role in deciding candidate’s future. The cut-off marks can be defined as the minimum score that is required to make it into final merit list. This recruitment drive will be held in two major phases- IBPS RRB Preliminary Exam 2019 and IBPS Mains Exam, where millions of applicants will be trying their luck. In 2018, there were around 5249 vacancies for the post of Office Assistant but now it is expected to be increased this year.

For every candidate’s information, there are three main factors that decide the cut-off for IBPS RRB Office Assistant Post this year and these factors are: 

• The total number of applicants for IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2019 Exam
• The total number of vacancies available for IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2019 Exam
• The overall level of complexity level for IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2019 Exam

Unlike other bank clerks, the job profile of IBPS RRB Office Assistant is relatively different. The bank clerks appointed by SBI and IBPS cater primarily to the urban population of India. On contrary, IBPS RRB Office Assistant has to interact and communicate with rural population of India with patience and determination. The primary job profile includes catering to needs and requirements of rural population and helping them in all sorts of banking activities. They are presumed to be first point of contact between bank and the customers. They work like bank’s representatives and are supposed to address customer’s queries and concerns. The working activities of IBPS RRB Office Assistants are to operate at cash counters, handle all forms of documentations, maintaining periodic reports of cash and credit transactions, helping new customers in opening new accounts, printing their passbooks, issuing debit and credit cards, clearing bank cheques, accepting deposits, replying to customer’s e-mails and queries and all other major kinds of banking activities.  

The job profile of IBPS RRB Office Assistants is varied and flexible in nature. They are also supposed to handle responsibilities in more than one department. The flexibility of working in different departments delivers a good working experience to them. It helps them building a good relationship with other bank colleagues and customers. As a fresher, it’s a good and innovative start to begin your career in banking sector where you can learn all about rural economy of India. The workload of IBPS RRB Office Assistant is reasonably lesser than that of IBPS RRB Officers but still they have to work a lot to complete their targets.

The probation or training period of an IBPS RRB Office Assistant (Multipurpose) is around 6 months to 1 year. It is during this probation period, he gets a professional training of all types of banking activities through professional experts. It makes them acclimatized to the banking work environment in most congenial way.

The pay scale for IBPS RRB Office Assistant is different for various banks. Every IBPS RRB bank has its own criterion of Pay Scale, as per their policies. In banking sector, it is the starting job and basic salary during training period is around INR 10,000 to 15,000 and it rises, as per candidate’s performance. The given below are the details: -

IBPS RRB Salary for Multipurpose Assistant posts – For Office Assistant at 100% DA for new recruits:  Rs. 14000-17000 (Cash in Hand).

Office Assistant Pay Scale: 7200-(400/3), 8400-(500/3), 9900-(600/4), 12300-(700/7), 17200-(1300/1), 18500-(800/1)-19300

Besides getting generous salary packages, job security and promising future, the selected candidates have great opportunities to get promoted to higher posts like Senior Manager, Branch Manager and Chairman.

Wishing all the spirited candidates, a very Good Luck for your Exam preparations and successful banking career ahead!

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